During a search on the App Store for my previous post, I found out under the term "Simrad" an application that furiously reminds me of something. From research to research, I discover the company Electric Pocket. This British applications publisher Develops the Mobile Apps from 1997, andrecently the applications Nautical under the name Pocket Mariner. That Company is based in Wales, United Kingdom, and deals with partners from all over the world.
SeaNav
This navigation app, which is available in three versions : SeaNav-HD, SeaNav UK & Ireland-HD and SeaNav US-HD is none other than the application sold by Digital Yacht under the name NavLink, that I mentioned on this blog a few months ago (¹). Interesting discovery. I invite you to follow the link (¹) for the details because these two apps are strictly the same, with iOS (iPhone / iPad) and Mac OS X version. You will see the chart and the navaids overlayed in augmented reality on the landscape through the lens of the mobile, as well as AIS targets with their routes. In this respect, Pocket Mariner is truly innovative. It remains to be seen how useful it will be in practice.
Compass Eye
You may remember the defunct app Compass AR, Featured in the beginning of this blog, disappeared from the AppStore for some time. Compass Eye does the same thing but ten times better. Early 2010 the defunct application of the German company Convelop came up against the handicap of iPhone screens practically unusable in bright light. Today, iPhones 6 and 6+, are perfectly readable by clear and sunny weather.
Pocket Mariner, with his experience in augmented reality, added extremely useful features, In addition to compass display : instant input of bearings, by tap on side icons, as green lines, red and yellow for a triangulation location by bearings, with digital display of angles. Bearing lines can be moved by dragging with the finger. Input an angle of approach of a ship to check constant bearing that means collision route. Screenshot by tapping on an icon. Speed over ground display (GPS) and Lat/Lon location, Day/night lighting, Up to 8x zoom.
Shortly, a really useful application to many points of view for a perfectly affordable price (4,49 €). I recommend.
Gracias Francis por toda la información recibida, muy interesante para el mundo de hoy, Mundo de la navegación marítima, by las tabletas, Móviles y de mas familia computerizada utilizada para situarse en el tenebroso mar, to know in advance that our planned route is not going to be crossed by a storm, sticky mists that don't let us see a meter beyond our bows.
All that today, We solve it by clicking on a tablet in a second of time, incredible, Thank you for your information, because seen in this way it is not so easy, you have to know things the same as we were taught to handle in the old days by the Nautical Almanacs, Tide Tables, Treatises on Navigation in general, everything so complicated, starting with the tedious Tables of Logarithms. etc,. etc,. Best regards
Thank you very much for this nice comment.
A correction – I have checked the project and Compass Eye only requires iOS 5 or later ( it still works with pre-iOS6 devices that have google maps).
Thank you very much for your kind review of my Compass Eye App, I am really pleased to hear you like it. Regarding our other app SeaNav/Navlink, just to let you know that there is now a free version of SeaNav for iPhone and iPad which has charts for the North of France ( from Lorient to Belgium ) , Belgium, Holland and Germany available as an In App Purchase as well as the UK and Ireland charts. We have also greatly improved the speed of chart drawing since your last review of the app as NavLink.
One further point answer to Courteaux’s comment, Compass Eye is available on iOS6 and later. SeaNav requires iOS 7 and later.
Merci pour ces applications, mais mon iPhone 3Gs qui ne peut migrer en iOS 7 Ne peut pas télécharger ces applications.
« Compatibilité : Necessite iOS 7.0 or later. "
For using an iPhone 3GS for more than 3 years old, It must be admitted that its screen is difficult to use for this kind of application in bright light. See the developer's details about compatible iOS versions.